Leading healthcare professor Don Berwick says NHS could be world number one if it integrates care

Leading healthcare professor Don Berwick says NHS could be world number one if it integrates care

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

One of the world’s leading healthcare experts says the NHS will be the best system in the world if it succeeds in integrating care, getting people and organisations to work together.

Professor Don Berwick, a former adviser to Barack Obama, says the NHS is teeming with people who have built modern services fit for the 21st century and it would be smart to learn from them while creating the future NHS.

He said the fragmented nature of the NHS could be solved if all local health and care organisations, including local government with social care, worked in partnership and pooled resources, a movement which is underway.